Monument record 8251/0/1 - Possible Iron Age to Saxon Enclosure Boundary

{2} The somewhat levelled remains consist of a low scarp delimiting the western and southern sides of what would have been a large, sub-rectangular enclosure (marked 'I' and 'j' on the earthwork plan). The enclosure had been overploughed with ridge and furrow.
The concentration of Iron Age to mid Saxon pottery at 'i' and 'l' on the plan is of great interest; fieldwalking does not prove continuous occupation, but it can suggest it. Also, this occupation would have been contained within what could have been a sub-rectangular enclosure, of uncertain, but relatively early date on the evidence of its relationship with the ridge and furrow. Its northern and eastern boundary is less certain, but could be the existing road and the former hollow way respectively. Thus the possibility exists here of the identification of an early earthwork feature in a village context, which may have influenced later topographical developments, in particular the trackway system.

BROWN A.E., Field Survey at Grafton Regis: A Village Plan Explained?, (unchecked) (Article). SNN75631.

<1> c.1700?, Grafton Regis Map (Undated), (unchecked) (Map). SNN108119.

<2> BROWN A.E., 1985, Field Survey at Grafton Regis, p.2+4 (checked) (Report). SNN1787.

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Jan 8 2013 6:09PM